You can see that in years gone by, parents relied more heavily on a small pool of names, whereas now there is much greater variety. If you want your child to stand out, we recommend the Oliver approach the Jamie Oliver approach, of course. ...
Weird celebrity baby names: How did this summer's famous newborns rank?
(VIA TWITTER) Past experience and an unnatural fixation with reading celebrity birth announcements suggest that stars tend to give their kids funky names. While regular parents often look to literature or family tradition when choosing a moniker, ...
Paging Peter Rosenbaum! Ashley and JP Supposedly Have Baby Names Picked Out
Chances are, Bentley is not one of the baby names in the running, should Ashley Hebert and JP Rosenbaum add a third member to Team Cupcake. The Season 7 Bachelorette couple, who recently moved in together in New York, haven't gotten married yet, ...
We're all familiar with Oscar and Tony and Emmy, but there are lots of other award names that aren't as well known, most representing a distinguished namesake. And no, we're not suggesting using Nobel or Pulitzer or Pritzger. Agatha: Named for Agatha ...
All that uncertainty won't keep us from suggesting some (new) unsolicited baby names for the forthcoming Knowles-Carter progeny. Brooklyn: Remember how, on "Hello Brooklyn 2.0," Jay rapped: "if we had a daughter/guess what I'm a call her, ...
Basic? Or Bizarre? Baby Monikers and Bear/Bull Markets
But while the trend toward bizarre baby names seems fueled by the eccentricities of the uber-famous, in truth it reflects collective human psychology at its most basic. The July 2011 Socionomist revisits a May 2010 report, which identified the strong ...
An analysis of 23 million page views of individual baby name pages on a baby names website shows that celebrities have a big impact on name selections. Five years ago, I might have said that the biggest overarching factor was personal meaning, ...
After news broke that Bey and Hov are expecting, we asked BET.com readers to start coming up with names for Little Baby Knowles-Carter and boy, did ya'll take the task seriously. Most of the suggestions range from predictable (Shawn Carter, ...